New Musescore/LMMS tutorial
I’ve posted a new tutorial, Using Musescore with LMMS, in the tutorials section. Comments, suggestions, and corrections welcome.
I have to say I find tutorials for Musescore annoying to write because of the—I hope you’ll forgive me for saying so—brain-dead html one is required to use. While I sympathize with the need to make the html accessible, it really is a problem for anyone wanting to write a good-looking tutorial. For example, the <h5> tag is so tiny I can hardly read it, and there's no way to make it larger. Furthermore, <h5> isn’t included in the auto-generated table of contents, which defeats the purpose of having a table of contents. It’s impossible to adjust vertical spacing in anything but the most awkward manner. The <kbd> tag causes a break, which it shouldn’t do. Some html tags are missing, e.g. <small>. And so on.
I think the web interface needs to implement CSS, perhaps offering it as an “advanced” editing option, as many blog sites do. It's very important that html tutorials not look as if they’ve been put together by someone who doesn’ know what they’ doing. It doesn’t inspire confidence.
Also, finding tutorials on the Musescore site is next to impossible. As was finding my way to the page for posting a new tutorial. I had to go to Google in order to find what I was looking for. It’s almost as if someone doesn’t want users writing or reading tutorials.
At the very least, please put a link to Tutorials in the site navigation menu.
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See #23440: Expose FAQ, Services, How Tos, Plugins
The tutorial is here http://musescore.org/en/node/25785
LLMS doesn't have Jack MIDI support? I see your are using a2jmidid?
Also you mention that LLMS audio output needs to be set on Jack Audio. Is that really mandatory, or the audio output can be sent anywhere else?
In reply to LLMS doesn't have Jack MIDI by [DELETED] 5
Oddly, no JACK MIDI support. One of the reasons for writing the tutorial was precisely this. A user who doesn't know about the a2j bridge would be lost.
Audio output doesn't have to be set on JACK. ALSA, OSS, PortAudio, PulseAudio, and SDL are all supported. I recommend JACK in the tutorial to keep things consistent. If you're already using JACK to connect to the a2j bridge, you might as well let JACK handle audio, too. I tend to leave "Oh, by the way, you can also do x/y/z..." stuff out of tutorials to keep the noise down.
Hey Peter,
Thanks for sharing your experience. Your remarks are valuable and justified. I have been given other work priority but let me see what I can do on a short term. I'll report back when I have an update.
In reply to Bumping the task by Thomas
Since I seem to be the only person who's mentioned the html issue and I don't plan to write another tutorial any time in the near future, there's no hurry. It would be nice, though, to be able to use CSS, if only for cross-linking within the tutorial itself using the id selector.
On a related note, is there a way to upload a batch of images all at once? The Firefox Upload Files window won't let me select multiple files when I click the 'Browse' button under "Attach new file:".
In reply to Bumping the task by Thomas
There now is a tutorial link in the right hand side menu, but for some strange reason the one this topic is about is missing there!?!
My question is there or has there already, a way made to reverse this? going from LMMS to Musescore? in a way like how logic writes the score as your doing it.
In reply to My question is there or has by verlon.bell
If you want to export a midi track from LMMS to MuseScore, just export a *.midi file and import it in MuseScore.
Otherwise, you don't need to go from LMMS to MuseScore. We have a way of note entering via midi-input, so you can use a LMMS->MuseScore midi transferring, but MuseScore can't handle a midi flow. You can use only step-time note entry, note by note.